Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The vast majority of children and young people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs)… [+6763 chars]
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 4 P.M. ET, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2022 MINNEAPOLIS – The estimated cost of multiple sclerosis (MS) reached $85.4 billion in 2019 in the United States, according to a new r… [+5093 chars]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently authorized a second COVID-19 mRNA vaccine booster for all people over age 50 and for immunocompromised people over age 12. Because the vaccines protecti… [+2740 chars]
image: Wesley Self, MD, MPH, principal investigator of the study and associate professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice President for Clinical Research Networks and Strategy at Vanderbilt University … [+4305 chars]
Wired brain illustration. mRNA quality control identified as novel drug target for Alzheimer’s and related dementias. Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (… [+5545 chars]
WEDNESDAY, April 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The structure of teens' families influences their risk of delinquent behaviors such as shoplifting, graffiti or robbery, new research suggests. For the … [+1832 chars]
How do bees make honey? Unlike many other bees, honeybee species don't hibernate in winter. Instead, they stay active in their hives. During the coldest months, honeybees cluster together to keep war… [+4768 chars]
EACH year we spend millions on vitamin and mineral supplements, with nearly half of the population buying them regularly. While the consensus is that a healthy balanced diet should provide all your … [+14622 chars]
Researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine have devised an immunotherapy technique that combines chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, with a cancer-ki… [+3454 chars]
Last week marked a major milestone in studying the human genome. Since the early 2000s, the Human Genome Project has published successive versions of their map, or "sequence," of the human genome. Wh… [+1910 chars]
April 13, 2022 Treatment with the psychedelic psilocybin otherwise known as magic mushrooms could lead to improvements in depression symptoms, according to a small study published in Nature Medicine.… [+2589 chars]
A 19th century rural Dutch village had unusually low rates of breastfeeding, likely because mothers were busy working, according to a study published April 13, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ON… [+2122 chars]
